There's one thing that the warmongering, police statist assholes know nothing about and it's the secret weapon of the people: LOVE. I couldn't get up in the morning and confront the day and Empire without it. Plastic Woman Pelosi wouldn't hold Bush accountable, the Supreme Court gave him the 2000 election, the media exhausted itself from not questioning his lies, then on August 6th, 2005, LOVE camped out on his doorstep and held him accountable. How can anyone understand the POWER OF LOVE who has never experienced it? We have the POWER and the POWER OF LOVE will ultimately defeat the LOVE OF MONEY and POWER. Stay strong and love each other. This is not a metaphysical, kum-ba-yah, warm fuzzy status update. (Don't want to make myself puke)

"Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." Che.

Civil Beat ,a local Hawaii online newpaper that does pretty good investigative journalism here in Hawaii,has a problem.Recently i looked on their website to see if their were any responses to my comments on varying storys their writers placed .I could not find one comment.Strange I thought,so i looked and looked and then i entered myname in their search archive's area,and yo and behold most of my 40 some articles were not their.This has occured before so i decided this time to check other commentator's entry's and archives.All of their story were their pages of them.I then sent a contact e-mail to the paper and had not received a reply the next day so 2 days later i sent another and finally received a reply.The sender suggested perhaps i used a "Anonymous proxy",i do not ever comment in that manner.Also the suggestion was made that they do not delete comments,and perhaps Facebook was slow to post,well i viewed the posts over many days as i checked back again and again to see how the discussion developed on various subjects.I suggested that I may contact Facebook as it sounds like they are suggesting Facebook has access to their server and can delete story's.Funny the comments i have made over the years are still on my facebook page.All i can imagine is someone at Civil Beat does not like to have my comments on their so called Free speech paper.Censorship is VERY BAD ,and i expect Civil Beat to respond with a better answer.Other friends on Civil Beat who are also Facebook friends have said the same thing happens to them.WHAT GIVES PIERRE OMIDYAR?

]]>dave@sunnewshawaii.com (Dave Moskowitz)OpinionWed, 21 Aug 2013 09:07:32 +0000We, Including LGBTQIA, Are Successful When We Help Each Other http://sunnewsmiami.com/opinion/item/185-we-including-lgbtqia-are-successful-when-we-help-each-other
http://sunnewsmiami.com/opinion/item/185-we-including-lgbtqia-are-successful-when-we-help-each-other

Living in a civilized society demands that differences be tolerated and living in a successful society such as the USA adds the dimension of diversity. Mono ethnic cultures, such as Japan, find themselves limited by the very fact that everyone is and thinks alike. A multiethnic culture, such as the USA, is successful in great measure because it is a melting pot.

Whether you believe that being gay or LGBTQIA is a lifestyle choice, an environmental learning, or hard coded genetically, it is a fact of society, and has been for all of recorded history. Gay is not going away; not going away any faster then left handedness, red headedness, obesity, genius, balding or caring.

Those who have an aberrant abhorrent fear of LGBTQIA and feel the need to demean gay individuals might be well served to stand in front of a mirror until the truth presents itself; or at least is allowed to peek around the corner. Those who feel the need to demean another for any reason are simply revealing a part of their true self. Those who help another help themselves; those who need another to lose so that they may win are already losers. Those who care for another regardless of who they may be, care for themselves.

The recent Republican and Democrat conventions revealed stark distinctions polarizing into two clear groups. The Republicans work toward and hope for a mono ethnic society and seem to despise all those who do not fit their narrow perspective.

The Democrat convention was a show of the diversity of American culture particularly inclusive of LGBTQIA issues. There were groups of people there who I didn’t even recognize yet when speakers touched on diverse subjects everyone engaged.

President Obama clearly and unequivocally stated the obvious; we are successful because we help each other. We are successful because of the efforts, culture and creativity constantly brought to America by each successive generation of immigrants. Going it alone may have an archaic romantic allure yet our success is predicated on helping each other.

One is always safe to keep in mind that though they may perceive themselves as an individual, we are each simply a small part of a whole diverse multiethnic society, and wholly dependant on that whole diverse multiethnic society for our very existence, and survival; few if any of us could long survive without those who produce our food and energy and provide for our defense. Cast your aspersion last.

By Ric Reily

As the backers of the ban on gay marriage seek a US Supreme Court review to overrule the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that struck down California’s Proposition 8 as unconstitutional let’s take a breather and understand what exactly marriage is.

Marriage is for living means that participating in the institution of marriage is a joy for the living, the joy of a culturally accepted couple existing in an accepting society.

Civil unions are for dying means that the goods and assets of the family are safe from predators on death. I view the rights of individuals as equal under the law.

Your right to swing your arm ends where my nose begins. My right to constitutional protections is absolute. Contrary to archaic beliefs, women do in fact have the capacity to think, blacks do in fact have the capacity to lead, American Indians do in fact have the capacity to participate meaningfully in society, and Orientals are in fact hard working and intellectually gifted.

This statement is not original to me; it represents a series of archaic beliefs upon which American culture once rested. The strength of one group was derived by stepping on another downtrodden group. With the passage of time and the integration of previously despised groups into mainstream culture, the archaic beliefs upon which unimaginable horror, hatred, pain, and death had been legally allowed, or commonly ignored, faded into unspoken history.

The current social conversation about marriage is simply a cultural belief about to be left as detritus along the roadside of cultural evolution. One day future generations will look back on this period of time with disbelief that the withholding of civil rights of a few based on sexual orientation was ever a common practice. The interesting wrinkle in the cultural argument for equal rights for homosexuals is that the very groups most likely to deny them, women and blacks, are the very groups who have so recently achieved their own equal rights under the law. Short are our memories.